Roque Cinchado
Roque Cinchado—known locally as Árbol de Piedra and in German as Steinerner Baum—is one of the island’s most recognizable volcanic landmarks. In Teide National Park, a World Heritage Site, it stands in the municipality of La Orotava near Teide volcano, roughly 1,700 metres below the summit. What you’re seeing is a 27-metre-high rock pillar, formed from volcaniclastic sedimentary layers left behind by an older landscape. Its upper portion was later altered by two lava sills, intrusions that hardened the top of the pillar and helped it resist erosion as softer surrounding rock wore away. Roque Cinchado is also part of a broader set of remnants from the former summit area, a group called “Roques García.” One more small detail ties the formation to Tenerife’s popular image: it appeared on one thousand peseta bank notes, with Teide in the background.
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